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Author : Lewis R. Lancaster,Luis O. Gómez
Publisher : Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X002236899
Author : Nancy McCagney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0847686272
In this innovative study of the philosopher Nagarjuna, Nancy McCagney demonstrates that the concept of space ('akasa') in early Indian Mahayana Buddhism is the root metaphor for Nagarjuna's understanding of 'sunyata', or openness. Nagarjuna's use of the term 'sunyata' was new, and contrasted with the word's use in Pali Buddhist literature. By using the word to mean 'openness,' Nagarjuna was able to elucidate, through a deeper analysis of impermanence, a consistent philosophical foundation for the truth and efficacy of Gautama's Middle Way. McCagney's book will be important for those studying Indian philosophy, Buddhism, and the philosophy of religion.
Author : Edward Conze
Publisher : Sanctum Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The literature on Prajnaparamita, vast, deep and vital to an understanding of the Mahayana. It has so far been neglected by the European scholars. With the aim of facilitating the study, the author has set out a certain amount of information about it. Thus this handbook records for the use of scholars the very limited knowledge acquired during the last century.
Author : Donald S. Lopez
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0887065902
Renowned for its terse declaration of the perfection of wisdom, the Heart Sutra is the most famous of Buddhist scriptures. The author draws on previously unexamined commentaries, preserved only in Tibetan, to investigate the meanings derived from and invested into the sutra during the later period of Indian Buddhism. The Heart Sutra Explained offers new insights on "form is emptiness, emptiness is form," on the mantra "gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha," and on the synthesis of Madhyamika, Yogacara, and tantric thought that characterized the final period of Buddhism in India. It also includes complete translations of two nineteenth century Tibetan commentaries demonstrating the selective appropriation of Indian sources.
Author : Lewis R. Lancaster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Mahayana Buddhism
ISBN : OCLC:906339608
Author : Andrew Skilton
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781909314122
An ideal introduction to the history of Buddhism. Andrew Skilton - a writer on and practitioner of Buddhism - explains the development of the basic concepts of Buddhism during its 2,500 years of history and describes its varied developments in India, Buddhism's homeland, as well as its spread across Asia, from Mongolia to Sri Lanka and from Japan to the Middle East. A fascinating insight into the historical progress of one of the world's great religions.
Author : Brian Black,Laurie Patton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317151425
Dialogue between characters is an important feature of South Asian religious literature: entire narratives are often presented as a dialogue between two or more individuals, or the narrative or discourse is presented as a series of embedded conversations from different times and places. Including some of the most established scholars of South Asian religious texts, this book examines the use of dialogue in early South Asian texts with an interdisciplinary approach that crosses traditional boundaries between religious traditions. The contributors shed new light on the cultural ideas and practices within religious traditions, as well as presenting an understanding of a range of dynamics - from hostile and competitive to engaged and collaborative. This book is the first to explore the literary dimensions of dialogue in South Asian religious sources, helping to reframe the study of other literary traditions around the world.
Author : David Seyfort Ruegg
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Buddhist literature, Sanskrit
ISBN : 3447022043
Author : Karl Brunnholzl
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834829596
The Abhisamayalamkara summarizes all the topics in the vast body of the Prajnaparamita Sutras. Resembling a zip-file, it comes to life only through its Indian and Tibetan commentaries. Together, these texts not only discuss the "hidden meaning" of the Prajnaparamita Sutras—the paths and bhumis of sravakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas—but also serve as contemplative manuals for the explicit topic of these sutras—emptiness—and how it is to be understood on the progressive levels of realization of bodhisattvas. Thus these texts describe what happens in the mind of a bodhisattva who meditates on emptiness, making it a living experience from the beginner's stage up through buddhahood. Gone Beyond contains the first in-depth study of the Abhisamayalamkara (the text studied most extensively in higher Tibetan Buddhist education) and its commentaries in the Kagyu School. This study (in two volumes) includes translations of Maitreya's famous text and its commentary by the Fifth Shamarpa Goncho Yenla (the first translation ever of a complete commentary on the Abhisamayalamkara into English), which are supplemented by extensive excerpts from the commentaries by the Third, Seventh, and Eighth Karmapas and others. Thus it closes a long-standing gap in the modern scholarship on the Prajnaparamita Sutras and the literature on paths and bhumis in mahayana Buddhism. The first volume presents an English translation of the first three chapters of the Abhisamayalamkara and its commentary by the Fifth Shamarpa. The second volume presents an English translation of the final five chapters and its commentary by the Fifth Shamarpa.
Author : Akira Hirakawa
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8120809556
This comprehensive and detailed survey of the first six centuries of Indian Buddhism sums up the results of a lifetime of research and reflection by one of Japan's most renowned scholars of Buddhism.
Author : Jacob N. Kinnard
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Buddhism in art
ISBN : 8120817931
On its broadest level, this book contributes to an ongoing expansion of both the history of religions and Buddhist studies by focusing on what is a far too frequently ignored aspect of religious experience: visual images. This is a study that is intended to speak to, and be relevant for, not only those interested specifically in Buddhism, but also scholars and students in the field of religion at large who are interested in the dialectical ways abstract, abstruse and even rarified textual discourses interact with devotional practices 'on the ground'. The specific focus of this book is on the Buddhist visual practices surrounding the visual representation of a single, central concept, prajna, or wisdom, in medieval north India. Prajna, however, was not only an intellectual state and spiritual goal to which to aspire. Rather, wisdom also becomes a quality to be visually represented and ritually responded to, and even an active presence to be venerated in much the same manner as the Buddha himself. This book explores the ways in which the production and use of artistic images involving prajna constituted a central, if not the central, component of Buddhist religious practice in Medieval India.
Author : Pauline Yu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 0520224663
This is an interdisciplinary collection of articles analyzing seven classic premodern Chinese texts that are provided in translation.
Author : Rufus C. Camphausen
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0892813512
Succinctly describes 140 sacred texts, dating from the earliest times to the present, in relation to the cultures that created them.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834830103
"Buddha nature" (tathāgatagarbha) is the innate potential in all living beings to become a fully awakened buddha. This book discusses a wide range of topics connected with the notion of buddha nature as presented in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and includes an overview of the sūtra sources of the tathāgatagarbha teachings and the different ways of explaining the meaning of this term. It includes new translations of the Maitreya treatise Mahāyānottaratantra (Ratnagotravibhāga), the primary Indian text on the subject, its Indian commentaries, and two (hitherto untranslated) commentaries from the Tibetan Kagyü tradition. Most important, the translator’s introduction investigates in detail the meditative tradition of using the Mahāyānottaratantra as a basis for Mahāmudrā instructions and the Shentong approach. This is supplemented by translations of a number of short Tibetan meditation manuals from the Kadampa, Kagyü, and Jonang schools that use the Mahāyānottaratantra as a work to contemplate and realize one’s own buddha nature.
Author : Kazuaki Tanahashi
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611803129
An illuminating in-depth study of one of the most well-known and recited Buddhist texts, by a renowned modern translator The Prajna Paramita Hridaya Sutra is among the best known of all the Buddhist scriptures. Chanted daily by many Zen practitioners, it is also studied extensively in the Tibetan tradition, and it has been regarded with interest more recently in the West in various fields of study—from philosophy to quantum physics. In just a few lines, it expresses the truth of impermanence and the release of suffering that results from the understanding of that truth with a breathtaking economy of language. Kazuaki Tanahashi’s guide to the Heart Sutra is the result of a life spent working with it and living it. He outlines the history and meaning of the text and then analyzes it line by line in its various forms (Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, Mongolian, and various key English translations), providing a deeper understanding of the history and etymology of the elusive words than is generally available to the non-specialist—yet with a clear emphasis on the relevance of the text to practice. This book includes a fresh and meticulous new translation of the text by the author and Roshi Joan Halifax.
